Zamfara nurses begin strike, issue Governor Lawal 24-hour ultimatum

By Idris Salisu, Gusau

The Coalition of Nurses successful Zamfara State has commenced an indefinite onslaught implicit alleged discriminatory wage implementation by the authorities government, giving Governor Dauda Lawal 24 hours to code their demands oregon hazard a full illness of healthcare services.

In a missive dated September 11, 2025, and signed by Dr. Kabiru Zamau connected behalf of the coalition, the nurses accused the authorities Ministry of Health of excluding implicit 1,000 nursing professionals from the wage benefits precocious approved for wellness workers, portion implementing it lone for aesculapian doctors.

The letter, which was copied to the authorities Commissioner of Health, Head of Service, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Zamfara State, the Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre Gusau, and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), lamented that respective appeals had been ignored by the government.

“Consequently, and arsenic a past resort, the nurses of Zamfara State person been forced to retreat their services. As of 9 hours ago, the concern enactment commenced crossed authorities authorities wellness facilities,” the conjugation said.

The radical warned that if urgent enactment is not taken wrong 24 hours, nurses successful national wellness institutions, including the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Gusau, volition articulation the onslaught successful solidarity.

The conjugation further cautioned that the onslaught could worsen the ongoing cholera outbreak successful the state. “Allowing the full nursing workforce to retreat their services astatine specified a captious juncture, solely owed to an injustice perpetrated by a authorities official, would beryllium an unprecedented and devastating nonaccomplishment of governance,” the missive stated.

The nurses urged Governor Lawal to personally intervene by directing the Ministry of Health to rectify the alleged favoritism and guarantee the inclusive implementation of the caller wage operation successful the September payroll.

They stressed that nonaccomplishment to enactment promptly would plunge the state’s healthcare strategy into a crisis, endangering lives already threatened by the cholera epidemic.

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